Many, many closet organizer products are available for just this purpose, and they target just about anything you might have hanging in the closet, or rather, lying on the floor, as the case may be. Some simple solutions to your closet woes are just a few dollars away. Here are some recommendations made by The Closet Organizers Guide for getting things managable:

Buy some additional shelves that you can just hang up. Yes, this means you don’t have to mess around with screws or nails, or god forbid, bust out a saw and have to cut away the shelves to fit. (Sorry John Loius.) Being a capitalist economy that caters to every need, one can find just about every kind of hanging shelf you’d want to put in a closet.

Suggestions include a simple hanging shelf rack, which provides half a dozen or so small shelves or racks for shoes, clothes, and sweaters, nicely folded of course. The more creative types in our audience will realize that, despite products being sold exclusively as a sweater rack or a shoe rack, adventurous organizers may put tshirts, underwear, socks, and even hats into these racks. (Don’t worry, we won’t tell you on!)

Prices for simple hanging shelves are on the very cheap end, such as a $20 unit sold by Whitney Design, modeol 01822-3, for organizing shoes, sweaters, and shirts.

Get a ‘double up’ rack and hang twice as many clothes. Now this option won’t work for everyone – it depends on how high your rack is already and if you have room underneath the area where you hang your clothes. But if you can make it work, check out what’s called a
Double Up Closet Doubler Rod. It attaches to your pre-existing closet bar and wah-lah, you instantly have twice as much space to hang clothes! This is perfect for those with small closets, such as dorm rooms and college apartments. If also fits the college student budget, typically costing under $20. Nice.

Donate your old shirts, sweaters, pants, and shoes you don’t actually wear and only take up precious, precious space. Ah, in a guide to organzing your closet, you probably knew in the back of your mind that we’d suggest you go through and rid  yourself of clothes you don’t wear anymore. After all, the less stuff you have to organize, the easier and better organized the closet will be. Simple math. (Plus you get the karma bonus points of giving clothes to someone who needs them. It’s a win-win situation.)

Seriously though, don’t overlook this suggestion. Many people, and dare we say most people, realize on closer inspection that 50% of the items in the closet haven’t been worn in years. If that’s the case, get rid of it. And while it’s hard to let go, once you have alll that extra space, trust us, you’ll be happy you did! It’s the equivalent to getting a closet that’s twice as big.

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If you take these three tips together, you can literally have a whole new closet and it’ll cost you less than $50, and even much less if you are a bargain hunter on something like Amazon.com.